Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-03-24


Wilkinson. j. Grieve, j. NJ Intyre and J.
NJ Guinness) thus awarded the Buckeye
the first prize, with the maximum number
If points; Hornsby second, with 49, and
Mccormick third. with 81, adding that the
work performed was the best they had
ever seen. and their decision was chcered
oy the farmers present.
The call to arms-"John, take the baby"
''Janc, do you like fish," NO" What
are you going TO fast on then!' PIE and
pickles"
Jewelled hoop earrings have returned to
favor. Bangles are sold of corresponding
designs.
A news item states that New York man
recently eloHed with his mother in law.
Well, he deserved it.
A sentimental writer thinks that lips
don't ripen nowadays. That may he, but
green lips are pretty good.
A Rockland, H., man advertised for
wi o recently and got SD many answers
that he took To the woods in alarm.
An Ohio man and his wife have not ex-
changed IA word for twenty five years. The
woman has done all the talking.
The skirt' of almost al walking dresses
are made quite plain, or with very mar
row leating set underneath the edge.
"Man proposes butn-upon thinking il
over we don't believe he proposes hall so
often as the girls would like him To.
Christian at Work: "The wedding was
trictly uriv t. owing t. the bridegroom
being still in mourning for his first wife
The woman whose favorite hymn is al
wo ld not i've a ways has spent $50 for
patent medicines during the past ten
rears.
No mater how good natured n young
ally may he her gentlemen friends can
ooI or tie raid when she determines to
ma e IA silk quilt.
II l. said that during the recent earths
Qua'e in Nice the ie1s in the hotels there
for the first time in many years received a
thorough shaking.
The iresh importation Of French white
toilets, embroidered and lace trimmed. are
marvels of Partisan skill, art and matchless
delicacy-
A horrid eastern paper sarcastically OBJ
serve that the Chicago woman's weapon
i her mouth, but you never hear of her
being arrested for carrying a concealed
weapon. Ii can't he concealed.
Jennie Gray has n farm of 100 acres i'm
Battineau county, Oak. She works it sue
cessfully, and says she could work another
II the plaguev men would stop bothering
her with proposals of marriage.
The stitchings on the backs of the fash
ion BILE four-button English gloves grow
broader and broader and the buttons con
stantly increase in size The favorite is
reddi- h mahogany shade, with the stitch
ings of black.
"My daug hter,n exclaimed fashionable
mother. lis innocence itself. You can't
say anything i'm her presence that will
make her biush.n
"Well, but if you can't bear her what
made YOU promisep' "Well, we had
danced three dances and couldn't think
Of any thing else to say"
The Judge says that "a valentine means
n great deal to widow" 1t will in six
months mean mighty sight moro to the
man who sends it.
''There is a pleasure in reaching after
higher things" said jennie. rs he put a
box on n chair to reach the top shelf where
best preserves were kept
Mason Bey is now the only American in
the service of the khedive of Egypt. He
was formerly an officer in the confederate
navy.
A lot of immigrants arrived Mt Butte
Nj: T., the other day, having been 80 hours
without food In u Northern Pacific snow
bank